Board Of Commissioners Board Meeting

Paulding County Board of Commissioners meeting, November 11, 2026: The board approved several procurement and capital items. These included a $1,277,741.75 contract with KM Davis Construction for the Mlin Road/SR 360 water-main replacement; a first-year, $72,000 contract with Aurelian for a 911 call-taking assistance suite, funded by 911 fees; and purchases of sheriff’s motorcycles from Great South Harley-Davidson for $56,570 and a FY2027 computer purchase from Howard Industries for $386,615. The board also approved a $213,545 Ford F-550 bucket truck from Hardy Family Ford under a Sourcewell contract and $82,562.44 in equipment from Williams Fire Apparatus through Sourcewell, funded by SPLOST and fire-tax revenues. Other approved actions included an airport taxiway expansion design-services contract, a change order, a FY2026 budget amendment, and relocation of a water meter and vault; the transcript provides no amounts for those items. A separate vehicle/equipment purchase amount is garbled in the transcript and cannot be reliably identified.

The board approved resolutions authorizing right-of-way condemnations for road projects, including Cedar Crest Road and the SR 120 connector, and adopted an updated fire-department pay scale. A proposed amendment to the public-participation ordinance received no successful motion, so the existing ordinance remained in effect. A proposed 175-foot telecommunications tower special-use permit was tabled to the December 8 meeting. Public comments addressed data-center preparedness and concerns about a proposed cell tower; no data-center procurement or related policy change was adopted.